The Power

Author/Guide: Naomi Alderman

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A new era has begun – women literarly have the power in their hands

ISBN: 978-0670919987
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi

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What you need to know before your trail

Imagine a world where women have all the power in their hands – power to control what they want to. With a simple flick of their fingers, they can control things, cause pain, and even kill someone

A dystopian world where sex-traffickers, anyone who puts women down, religious fundamentalists who don’t believe in women’s education get what they deserve.

Why men live in fear from attack and are banned from voting or driving a car in certain countries.

What would a world like that look like, and if you had the power, how would you use it. Is it just another case of ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely?

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Reset

Travel Guide

Worldwide – a new era and a new dystopian landscape

This is a dystopian world – one where the current era has been erased by nuclear warfare and this new one is awash with a new status quo – women now are the leaders of the world and it’s a woman’s’ world where men, not women are subjugated, live in fear, are banned from driving, not allowed to vote, go to school etc…all ways in which women have either been obstructed or still are, from living a free and easy life.

‘The Power’ liberates the potential of women, but it also sets free a darkness that these women have built up following many many years of oppression.

What would the world be liked if the oppressed became the oppressors? If women had all the freedoms men had and where it was men who were told how to dress to avoid attack etc…

Saudi Arabia

“They do not let us drive a car here, she says, but what wat we can do. She places he hand on the bonnet of the car and uses the power to start the engine

There are riots in Riyadh, people discussing this on internet forums all over the world. On the internet there are no boundaries and on borders.

Israel

“The Israeli government is the one funding these new ‘churches’; they’ve been trying to bring down Christianity for centuries now, discrediting us, using the black to poison the inner cities with drugs….

Has God sent a miracle to save people as He rescued the Chhildren of Israel from slavery